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      Duke of York . The following notification of the death of the Duke of York appeared in an Extraordinary Gazette , dated Whitehall , January 5 . " This evening , at 20 minutes past nine o ' clock , departed this life , after a painful and protracted illness , His Royal Highness Frederick Duke of York and Albany , His Majesty ' s next brother , to the great grief of His Majesty , and of all the Royal Family . "

      His Royal Highness was the second son of his late Majesty George III ., and was born on the 16 th of August , 1763 . At the age of seven months he was elected Bishop of Osnaburgh . In 1771 , he was installed a Knight of the Order of the Garter , in company with his two

      brothers , his present Majesty and the Duke of Cumberland . His Royal Highness was , in 1784 , created a Peer of the Realm by the style and title of Duke of York , and also Duke of Albany in Scotland , and Earl of Ulster in Ireland . At the time of his death he was also

      Commander-in-Chief of all His Majesty ' s land forces ; a Field Marshal in the army ; Colonel of the First or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards ; Colonel-in-Chief of the 60 th , or Royal American Regiment of Infantry ; Officiating Grand Master of the most Honourable Military Order of the Bath ; Knight of the most

      Noble Order of the Garter ; Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order of the Kingdom of Hanover ; Lord Warden of Windsor Forest and Great Park ; Warden and Keeper of the New Forest ; High Steward of New Windsor j D . C . L . and F . R . S .

      On the 29 th September , 1791 , his Royal Highness was married at Berlin to the Princess Frederique Charlotte Ulrique Catherine , eldest daughter of the then King of Prussia ; and re-married at St . James ' s on their arrival in England . The Duchess of York died at Oatlands in 1820 , in the 54 th year of her age . " He lived with her , " it has been said , " on terms of decency , but not of affection . "

      As a military leader , his Royal Highness is known only by a series of disastrous defeats sustained by the British troops under his command in Flanders and

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      Holland in an early period of the French Revolutionary War . His services to the army as Commander-in-Chief are highly extolled by those who are judges of such matters . Some of his proceedings in this department were , however , severely scrutinized in 1809 , and drew upon him so much public odium , that he deemed

      it prudent to resign his appointment for a season . It appeared by a Parliamentary investigation that some commissions had been irregularly granted under his authority , at the solicitation of an abandoned woman , who had been living under his protection , and who had availed herself of her influence over him to serve her

      own purposes . Subsequently to his Royal Highness ' s reinstalment in the office , it is just to add , that his conduct in the discharge of its duties has been totally free from reproach . As a politician , his Royal Highness was

      chiefly known as the determined enemy of Catholic emancipation , as to which , in his celebrated speech in the House of Lords on the 25 th of April , 1825 , he pledged himself , by a voluntary oath , to be its uncompromising opponent " to the latest moment of his existence . "

      In private life the chief defects of his Royal Highness's character were his criminal passion for the abandoned of the other sex , and his propensity for gaming . These vices led him to a course of extravagant expenditure that involved him in an enormous debt , which , to the serious loss or ruin of many honest tradesmen , remained unliquidated at his death .

      " In private society he was , " it is said , " warmly and deservedly beloved , ¦*—cheerful , affable , open , brave and generous ; a steady and cordial friend , grateful for kindnesses , inviolable in his en - gagements , placable in his few resentments , humane and compassionate to all whose distresses he had the means of

      relieving . He was easy and unassuming among the higher classes with whom he lived . He was considerate , kind and beneficent towards those over whom his power extended . "

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      Francis Rawdon Hastings , Marquis of Hastings , JEarl of Rawdo « , Viscount

      Obituary.

      OBITUARY .

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      Marquis of Hastings .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 123, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/43/